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Recent rainfall station totals
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About these data, maps and tables
- Maps and tables use real-time rainfall data, and limited quality control has been performed
- Some stations occasionally report multi-day accumulations, which may show up as high daily, weekly or month-to-date totals.
- Daily data are updated at and available around .
- Weekly data are updated at AEDT each day and available around .
- Monthly data are published around on the last day each month, then updated after midnight on the 2nd, 3rd and 22nd of the following month.
- Month periods use monthly totals, and have additional information, including 'Years of data', 'Mean' and 'Percentile' rainfall for the selected period. Percentiles are calculated for stations with at least 20 years of data; newer stations show N/A in map popups and -1.00 in the table view. Percentiles are expressed as a number out of 100. The percentile refers to the ranking of a particular value relative to all of the values for that site.
- Elevation is listed as -999 in the table when not available
- In the tables, select Station number to open rainfall table, or elsewhere in row to show on map
- Popups from the map, and Station numbers in the table, link to more rainfall information. In the tables, periods with daily data link to the latest year of daily rainfall values, and month periods link to the full station history of monthly data.
- More about rainfall data
Weekly highlights
A Monsoon low and strengthened onshore flow brought widespread and heavy rainfall to northern Queensland
- Heavy rainfall and thunderstorms affected northern Queensland, driven by deep tropical moisture interacting with a monsoon low and an embedded trough over western Queensland, along with enhanced onshore winds along the state’s north-eastern coast. This triggered flooding across northern Queensland.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 50 to 400 mm were recorded in large parts of northern Queensland, especially in central and north-east regions. More than 500 mm fell along the north-eastern Queensland coast.
- Severe Tropical Cyclone Hayley peaked at Category 4 north-west of Broome and made landfall as a Category 3 system on the Kimberley coast on 30 December 2025. It had weakened to a tropical low by 31 December and then tracked east across north-western Australia before dissipating.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 15 to 200 mm, with isolated higher totals, were recorded in northern parts of Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
- A trough over western New South Wales drew moisture from the north, bringing thunderstorms, some severe, along with showers and localised heavy rainfall to large areas of eastern New South Wales, parts of south-eastern Queensland, and eastern and central Victoria over the weekend.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 50 mm, with isolated higher totals, were recorded over eastern New South Wales, southern and south-eastern Queensland, and far eastern Victoria.
- The highest weekly total (at a bureau gauge) was 1086.4 mm at Cowley Beach (Defence) in Queensland.
- The highest daily total (at a bureau gauge) was 414.0 mm at Innisfail Wharf Alert in Queensland in the 24 hours to 9am on 31 December 2025.
Product code: IDCKGRWAR0
History
Previous rainfall reports
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